Welcome
Welcome to the world of orienteering, where adventure meets skill and nature comes alive! Whether you are a seasoned navigator or a curious beginner, our club Lagan Valley Orienteers offers an exciting way to explore the great outdoors. Join us as we embark on thrilling journeys through forests, up mountains, and around parks, all while honing our navigation skills, making friends, running together and having fun. See “I tried orienteering” on YouTube and continue reading here.
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News Headlines
- Europe’s Iconic 5-Day Orienteering Festival Comes to Co. Kerry — Join LVO This July 2026! 🧭🇮🇪
- 🌈🏃♂️ Entries Are NOW OPEN for the First NI Colour Series of 2026! 🏃♀️🌈
- 🎉 Congratulations to Steph, Fionne & Moire – Winners of the Stephen McGibbon Trophy! 🎉
- 🏆 Celebrating Our Event Officials of the Year 2025!
- 🔥 What. A. Weekend! NIOA Juniors set Fermanagh on Fire 🔥
News
Here are the first 100 hundred words of the latest posts to LVO’s news feed. Please note that hyperlinks appear as plain text in these snippets – click the heading to see the full post with working hyperlinks. The news page is here.
- Europe’s Iconic 5-Day Orienteering Festival Comes to Co. Kerry — Join LVO This July 2026! 🧭🇮🇪 - Not sure how to spend your summer months? Worried you’ll be deprived of your orienteering fix? Fear not. Join the 18 LVO members already signed up for the OOCup 5-day orienteering festival in Co. Kerry, 26–30 July 2026 — as this iconic European event makes its Irish debut 🇮🇪 Normally held across mainland Europe, this renowned international festival is coming to Ireland for the very first time — bringing world-class competition to some of the finest terrain our island has to offer. Expect technical forests, intricate contour detail, fast open sections, and five days of proper championship-quality racing. This is genuinely a once-in-a-generation opportunity to compete… Read More ...
- 🌈🏃♂️ Entries Are NOW OPEN for the First NI Colour Series of 2026! 🏃♀️🌈 - We’re kicking off the NI Colour Series in style — and we can’t wait to see you there! 📍 Location: Hope Castle, Castleblayney 🗓 Date: Sunday 1 March ⏰ Starts: 11:00am – 2:00pm 🔗 Full details: https://www.orienteering.ie/fixtures/castleblaney-2/ This one has had quite the journey! The original plan was to head to Glenariff, but storm damage made the forest unusable. We then looked forward to Cave Hill / Belfast Castle, however access and safety issues couldn’t be resolved in time. Huge thanks to Billy, Lyle and Wilbert for all their valiant efforts to make it happen. So we are incredibly grateful… Read More ...
- 🎉 Congratulations to Steph, Fionne & Moire – Winners of the Stephen McGibbon Trophy! 🎉 - A huge well done to Steph, Fionne and Moire, this year’s very deserving recipients of the Stephen McGibbon Trophy. Named in memory of Stephen McGibbon – a hugely respected orienteer and stalwart of Lagan Valley Orienteers who sadly passed away in 2006 aged just 51 – the trophy is not about podium places or split times. Instead, it recognises the individual or group who has made the most outstanding contribution to club life over the past year. And what a contribution this trio has made. Over the last 12 months, Steph, Fionne and Moire have gone all-in to welcome juniors… Read More ...
- 🏆 Celebrating Our Event Officials of the Year 2025! - What a brilliant moment at today’s AGM as we celebrated our Event Officials of the Year 2025 – voted for by you, our members! There’s nothing quite like making orienteers happy… and these legends made orienteers the happiest this year. Each winner receives £20 credit to their SI Entries account — so they can get out there and orienteer even more (on us ). Club/NIOA Event Officials of the Year IOC Relays, Magilligan Graeme Francis & Michael Burton – Planners Murray Cowan – Organiser Raymond Finlay – Controller Experienced WEE Officials of the Year Mount Stewart WEE Extra Dan Earnshaw… Read More ...
About Orienteering
Videos: Introduction to Orienteering | Setting the map | Using the Compass | Attack Points | Aiming Off | Large Contour Features | Route Choice | Intricate Contours.
Websites: Learn Orienteering (e.g. map colours, legends, control symbols and much else besides) | O-training.net (a resource for orienteering training).
Read about the different types of orienteering here and you’ll find some tips here.